BA in Dance < University of Texas at El Paso

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Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Dance must pursue a minor in education. Students will be required to take 42 credits to satisfy the University Core requirements, 21 credits to satisfy the minor in education, 3 credits of English at the 3300 level or higher, and 54 credits in the major.

All students seeking the Bachelor of Arts in Dance Education are required to earn a minimum grade of "C" in all DANC designated courses.

Concentrations

8-12 Dance Teacher Certification

Bachelor of Arts in Dance with a Minor in Education

Degree Plan

Required Credits: 120

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Background Check Required
A complete background check is required of all students who wish to receive teacher certification in the State of Texas. Students will be required to pass a background check before certification will be conferred by the State Board of Educator Certification (SBEC).
ESOL Track
Students who completed ESOL 1311 and ESOL 1312 will need to also complete ESOL 2303 with a grade of C or better.
University Core Curriculum
Complete the University Core Curriculum requirements.		42
Dance Major
Required Courses:
DANC 1022	Dance Theatre Lab (Complete five semesters)	0
DANC 1341	Ballet I	3
DANC 1342	Ballet II	3
DANC 2341	Ballet III	3
DANC 2342	Ballet IV	3
DANC 2345	Contemporary Dance I	3
DANC 2346	Contemporary Dance II	3
DANC 3301	Dance Theory and Composition	3
DANC 3303	History of Dance as a Perf Art	3
DANC 3322	World Dance	3
DANC 3345	Contemporary Dance III	3
DANC 3346	Contemporary Dance IV	3
DANC 3363	Somatics	3
DANC 3371	Dance fr the Music Theatre III	3
DANC 4301	Choreography	3
DANC 4345	Contemporary Dance V	3
DANC 4346	Contemporary Dance VI	3
DANC 4371	Dance for Music Theatre IV	3
DANC 4390	Seminar	3
Secondary Education Minor
Required Courses:
DANC 4394	Dance Pedagogy	3
EDPC 3300	Developmental Variations	3
RED 3342	Content Area Literacy	3
SCED 3311	Curriculum Plan-Secondary Schl	3
SCED 3317	Multicultural Ed in Sec School	3
SCED 4691	Student Teaching in Sec School	6
English Upper-Division Electives:
Select three hours of the following:		3
ENGL 3300	Intro. to Literary Studies
ENGL 3301	Literary Studies
ENGL 3302	Literature and Film
ENGL 3303	Grammar and Writing
ENGL 3304	Gothic Literature
ENGL 3305	Children's Literature
ENGL 3306	Young Adult Literature
ENGL 3307	English Phonetics & Phonology
ENGL 3309	Detective Fiction
ENGL 3310	Chicana/o Literature
ENGL 3311	American Literature to 1865
ENGL 3312	Am. Literature 1865 to Present
ENGL 3314	Struct Engl for Lang Professnl
ENGL 3315	African American Literature
ENGL 3316	Native American Literature
ENGL 3317	Postcolonial Literature
ENGL 3318	British Literature Before 1485
ENGL 3319	Sixteenth-Cent. Prose & Poetry
ENGL 3320	Shakespeare
ENGL 3321	Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry
ENGL 3323	17th Century Prose and Poetry
ENGL 3325	Literature of the Bible
ENGL 3327	Jewish American Literature
ENGL 3328	Holocaust Literature and Film
ENGL 3329	Early Modern British Drama
ENGL 3330	Restoration & 18th Century Lit
ENGL 3331	World Literature
ENGL 3332	Contemporary Global Literature
ENGL 3333	Romantic Literature
ENGL 3337	Victorian Literature
ENGL 3341	History of Form I
ENGL 3342	History of Form II
ENGL 3344	Am. Poetry 1900 to Present
ENGL 3345	Editing
ENGL 3349	Multimdl & Hybrid Frms in ELA
ENGL 3350	English Laboratory
ENGL 3351	The Dynamics of Language
ENGL 3352	Reading and Writing Nonfiction
ENGL 3353	Reading/Responding/Literature
ENGL 3357	Computers and Writing
ENGL 3358	Special Topics in Writing
ENGL 3360	Women in Literature
ENGL 3371	Southwestern Literature
ENGL 3372	Folklore and Mythology
ENGL 3374	Folklore Of Mexican American
ENGL 4300	Senior Writing Practicum
ENGL 4308	Chaucer
ENGL 4309	Milton
ENGL 4314	Literary Criticism
ENGL 4315	Development Of English Drama
ENGL 4316	Am. Nonfiction/Poetry To 1900
ENGL 4317	American Fiction To 1900
ENGL 4318	Early 20TH Cent Am. Fiction
ENGL 4319	Am. Fiction 1945 to Present
ENGL 4322	The American Drama
ENGL 4325	British Drama Since 1880
ENGL 4340	Advanced Literary Studies
ENGL 4347	British Novel thru 18th Cent
ENGL 4348	British Novel: 19th Century
ENGL 4349	British Novel: 20th Century
ENGL 4350	Maj Am. Writer(s) through 1900
ENGL 4351	Maj Am Writer(s) since 1900
ENGL 4354	Writing Processes of Children
ENGL 4355	Tch Compos and Lit in Sec Schl
ENGL 4357	Sp Subjects in Engl for Tchers
ENGL 4390	Directed Study
RWS 3355	Workplace Writing
RWS 3359	Technical Writing
RWS 3365	Adv Composition:Rhet Theory
RWS 3366	Advanced Composition: Argument
Total Hours		120

University Core Curriculum

NOTE: The department may make specific suggestions for courses which are most applicable towards your major.

Psychology and Criminal Justice majors and minors are required to take MATH 1320 Math for Social Sciences I (C) or a higher level Calculus course.

Business majors are required to take MATH 1320 Math for Social Sciences I (C) or a higher level Calculus course.

NOTE: All courses require a C or better

Communication

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Select six hours of the following: (Note: ESL students should take ESOL 1300 & ESOL 1312		6
COMM 1611	Written and Oral Communication
RWS 1301	Rhetoric & Composition I
RWS 1302	Rhetoric & Composition 2
RWS 1601	Rhetoric, Composition & Comm
ESOL 1311	Expos Engl Compos-Spkr Esl (C) ¹
ESOL 1312	Res & Crit Writng Spkr Esl (C) ¹
Total Hours		6

American History

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Required Courses:
HIST 1301	History of U.S. to 1865 (C)	3
HIST 1302	History of U.S. Since 1865 (C)	3
Total Hours		6

Language, Philosophy & Culture

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Select one of the following:		3
ENGL 2311	English Literature (C)
ENGL 2312	English Literature (C)
ENGL 2313	Intro to American Fiction (C)
ENGL 2314	Intro to American Drama (C)
ENGL 2318	Intro to American Poetry (C)
FREN 2322	Making of the "Other" Americas
HIST 2301	World History to 1500 (C)
HIST 2302	World History Since 1500 (C)
PHIL 1301	Introduction to Philosophy (C)
PHIL 2306	Ethics (C)
RS 1301	Introduct to Religious Studies
SPAN 2340	Seeing & Naming: Conversations
WS 2300	Introduction to Womens Studies
WS 2350	Global Feminisms
Total Hours		3

Mathematics

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Select one of the following:		3
MATH 1319	Math in the Modern World (C)
MATH 1320	Math for Social Sciences I (C)
MATH 1411	Calculus I
MATH 1411A	Calculus I - Part A
MATH 1411B	Calculus I - Part B
MATH 1411C	Calculus I - Part C
MATH 1508	Precalculus (C)
MATH 1508A	Pre-calculus - Part A
MATH 1508B	Pre-calculus - Part B
MATH 1508C	Pre-calculus - Part C
MATH 2301	Math for Social Sciences II
MATH 2326	Differential Equations
STAT 1380	Descriptive & Inferential Stat
STAT 2480	Elementary Statistical Methods
Total Hours		3

Life & Physical Sciences - Lab

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Select one of the following:		1-4
ASTR 1107	Astronomy Lab I (C)
BIOL 1103	Introductory Biology Lab (C)
BIOL 1104	Human Biology Laboratory (C)
BIOL 1107	Topics in Study of Life I
BIOL 1108	Organismal Biology Laboratory
BIOL 2111	Human Anat/Physio Lab I (C)
BIOL 2113	Human Anat/Physio Lab II (C)
CHEM 1105	Laboratory for CHEM 1305
CHEM 1106	Laboratory for CHEM 1306
CHEM 1407	Introductory Chemistry (C)
CHEM 1408	Introductory Chemistry (C)
ESCI 1101	Environmental Sci. Lab (C)
ESCI 1102	Non-major Lab for ESCI 1301
GEOG 1106	Laboratory for GEOG 1306 (C)
GEOL 1104	Lab for GEOL 1314 (C)
GEOL 1103	Lab for GEOL 1313 (C)
GEOL 1111	Principles of Earth Sci - Lab
GEOL 1112	Laboratory for Geology 1212
PHYS 1403	General Physics I (C)
PHYS 1404	General Physics II (C)
PHYS 2420	Introductory Mechanics
PHYS 2421	Introductory Electromagnetism
Total Hours		1-4

Life and Physical Sciences

A minimum of two semesters of lecture and one semester of laboratory associated with one of the courses, or two semesters of combined (3 credit) lecture-laboratory courses (Only six hours apply toward the required 42.)

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Select six hours of the following: ¹		6
ASTR 1107	Astronomy Lab I (C)
ASTR 1307	Elem Astronomy-Solar System(C)
ASTR 1308	Elem Astr Stars & Galaxies (C)
BIOL 1103	Introductory Biology Lab (C)
BIOL 1104	Human Biology Laboratory (C)
BIOL 1107	Topics in Study of Life I
BIOL 1108	Organismal Biology Laboratory
BIOL 1203	Introductory Biology
BIOL 1304	Human Biology (C)
BIOL 1305	General Biology
BIOL 1306	Organismal Biology
BIOL 2111	Human Anat/Physio Lab I (C)
BIOL 2113	Human Anat/Physio Lab II (C)
BIOL 2311	Human Anat/Physiology I (C)
BIOL 2313	Human Anat/Physiology II (C)
CHEM 1105	Laboratory for CHEM 1305
CHEM 1106	Laboratory for CHEM 1306
CHEM 1305	General Chemistry
CHEM 1306	General Chemistry (C)
CHEM 1407	Introductory Chemistry (C)
CHEM 1408	Introductory Chemistry (C)
ESCI 1101	Environmental Sci. Lab (C)
ESCI 1102	Non-major Lab for ESCI 1301
ESCI 1301	Intro to Environmental Sci (C)
GEOG 1106	Laboratory for GEOG 1306 (C)
GEOG 1306	Physical Geography (C)
GEOL 1103	Lab for GEOL 1313 (C)
GEOL 1104	Lab for GEOL 1314 (C)
GEOL 1111	Principles of Earth Sci - Lab
GEOL 1112	Laboratory for Geology 1212
GEOL 1211	Principles of Earth Sciences
GEOL 1212	Principles of Earth Science
GEOL 1230	The Blue Planet
GEOL 1231	Natural Hazards
GEOL 1313	Intro to Physical Geology (C)
GEOL 1314	Intro to Historical Geol (C)
HSCI 2302	Fundamentals of Nutrition
HSCI 2303	Wellness Dynamics
MICR 2330	Microorganisms and Disease
PHYS 1403	General Physics I (C)
PHYS 1404	General Physics II (C)
PHYS 2120	Laboratory for PHYS 2320
PHYS 2121	Laboratory for PHYS 2321
PHYS 2320	Introductory Mechanics
PHYS 2321	Introductory Electromagnetism
Total Hours		6

¹	Based on the major selected, options listed might not be applicable; please refer to the prerequisite area at top if one is present.

Political Science

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Required Courses:
POLS 2310	Introduction to Politics (C)	3
POLS 2311	American Gover & Politics (C)	3
Total Hours		6

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Select one of the following:		3
ANTH 1301	Intro-Phys Anth/Archeolog (C)
ANTH 1302	Intro-Cultural Anthropology(C)
ANTH 1310	Cultural Geography
ANTH 2320	Intro to Linguistics (C)
CE 2326	Econ for Engrs & Scientists
COMM 2350	Interpersonal Communication
COMM 2372	Mass Media and Society
ECON 2303	Principles of Economics (C)
ECON 2304	Principles of Economics (C)
EDPC 1301	Introduction to Ed Psychology
EDU 1342	Action Research in Classrooms
ENGL 2320	Introduction to Linguistics(C)
GEOG 1310	Cultural Geography (C)
LING 2320	An Intro. to Linguistics (C)
LING 2340	Lang. Inside & Out: Sel Topics
PSYC 1301	Introduction to Psychology (C)
SOCI 1301	Introduction to Sociology (C)
SOCI 1310	Cultural Geography
Total Hours		3

Creative Arts

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Select one of the following:		3
ART 1300	Art Appreciation (C)
ARTH 1305	History of Art I (C)
ARTH 1306	History of Art II (C)
DANC 1304	Dance Appreciation (C)
FILM 1390	Intro-Art of Motion Pict. (C)
MUSL 2321	Intro to Music History
MUSL 1324	Music Appreciation (C)
MUSL 1327	Jazz to Rock (C)
THEA 1313	Introduction to Theatre (C)
Total Hours		3

Component Area Option

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Select two of the following:		6
BUSN 1301	Intro to Global Business
COMM 1301	Public Speaking (C)
COMM 1302	Business/Profession Comm (C)
CS 1310	Intro-Computational Thinking
CS 1320	Computer Programming Sci/Engr
SCI 1301	Inquiry in Math & Science
UNIV 1301	Seminar/Critical Inquiry (C)
Total Hours		6